Holidays provide a fantastic way of channeling peoples’ attention and energy.

Most of our holidays are focused on past events or individuals, or on the rhythms of nature. History and nature are wonderful and should be honored — but the amazing future we are building together should be honored as well.

Future Day is a way of focusing and celebrating the energy that more and more people around the world are directing toward creating a radically better future.

This is a brand new holiday — the first Future Day was in 2012. This year on March 1st Future Day will be even better! Let us all work together to continue to make Future Day a great success!

Holidays provide a fantastic way of channeling peoples’ attention and energy.

Most of our holidays are focused on past events or individuals, or on the rhythms of nature. History and nature are wonderful and should be honored — but the amazing future we are building together should be honored as well.

Future Day is a way of focusing and celebrating the energy that more and more people around the world are directing toward creating a radically better future.

This is a brand new holiday — the first Future Day was in 2012. This year on March 1st Future Day will be even better! Let us all work together to continue to make Future Day a great success!

Are there ways to directly strengthen fairness and moral cognition in the prefrontal cortex, and weaken the cognitive biases bubbling up from the amygdala? Research on the genetic correlates of moral cognition, and the effects of psychoactive drugs, and of electrical and magnetic manipulation of the brain, suggest there are ways to enhance fairness and impartiality.

http://ieet.org/images/kai-fairness-plus-capsules-500x500.jpg]]>Rights > Neuroethics > FreeThought > Economic > Life > Enablement > Brain–computer-interface > Innovation > Neuroscience > Implants > Vision > Psychology > Sociology > Philosophy > CyborgBuddha > Technoprogressivism > Staff > J. Hughes]]>Are there ways to directly strengthen fairness and moral cognition in the prefrontal cortex, and weaken the cognitive biases bubbling up from the amygdala? Research on the genetic correlates of moral cognition, and the effects of psychoactive drugs, and of electrical and magnetic manipulation of the brain, suggest there are ways to enhance fairness and impartiality.]]>2015-03-01T16:32:+00:00A Simulated Mouse Brain in a Virtual Mouse Bodyhttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sim20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sim20150301#When:07:17:00ZNeurorobotics engineers from the Human Brain Project (HBP) have recently taken the first steps towards building a "virtual mouse" by placing a simplified computer model of the mouse brain into a virtual mouse body. This new kind of tool will be made available to scientists, both HBP and worldwide. Read more: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/-/a-...

]]>2015-03-01T07:17:+00:00The Power Of Ideashttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ideas20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ideas20150301#When:07:07:00Z“Just as the biosphere stands above the world of nonliving matter, so an ‘abstract kingdom’ rises above the biosphere. The denizens of this kingdom? Ideas”

Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. New episodes every Tuesday.

Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. New episodes every Tuesday.

]]>2015-03-01T07:07:+00:00Human Life and the Quest for Immortalityhttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/danaher20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/danaher20150301#When:06:45:00Z

Human beings have long desired immortality. In his book on the topic, cleverly-titled Immortality, Stephen Cave argues that this desire has taken on four distinct forms over the course of human history. In the first, people seek immortality by simply trying to stay alive, either through the help of magic or science. In the second, people seek resurrection, sometimes in the same physical form and sometimes in an altered plane of existence.

http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/dan20150301b.jpg]]>Security > Rights > Life > Vision > Psychology > Sociology > Philosophy > Futurism > Technoprogressivism > Affiliate Scholar > John Danaher]]>Human beings have long desired immortality. In his book on the topic, cleverly-titled Immortality, Stephen Cave argues that this desire has taken on four distinct forms over the course of human history. In the first, people seek immortality by simply trying to stay alive, either through the help of magic or science. In the second, people seek resurrection, sometimes in the same physical form and sometimes in an altered plane of existence.]]>2015-03-01T06:45:+00:00A New Rule, and a Brave Official, Gain Allies Against Wall Streethttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20150301#When:06:38:00Z

A lone bureaucrat has been fighting the financial industry for years, on an issue that stands at the intersection of two national challenges: investment regulation and retirement security. Along the way she’s collected some new and interesting allies. Is that a sign of things to come?

http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/esk20150301a.jpg]]>Security > Rights > Life > Vision > Affiliate Scholar > Richard Eskow]]>A lone bureaucrat has been fighting the financial industry for years, on an issue that stands at the intersection of two national challenges: investment regulation and retirement security. Along the way she’s collected some new and interesting allies. Is that a sign of things to come?]]>2015-03-01T06:38:+00:00Depression &amp; Anxiety: Freedom Without Responsibilityhttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/messerly20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/messerly20150301#When:06:31:00Z

Consider these two questions: 1) Are you responsible for being depressed or anxious? And 2) Should you feel guilty or ashamed of being depressed or anxious? Let’s consider the first question.

http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/jgm20150301c.jpg]]>Rights > Disability > Life > Health > Vision > Affiliate Scholar > John G. Messerly]]>Consider these two questions: 1) Are you responsible for being depressed or anxious? And 2) Should you feel guilty or ashamed of being depressed or anxious? Let’s consider the first question.]]>2015-03-01T06:31:+00:00The Moral Philosophy of Transhumanismhttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/twyman20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/twyman20150301#When:06:23:00Z

Transhumanism is an increasingly popular philosophical movement, and that increasing popularity can sometimes lead to a degree of confusion among newer adherents about what its necessary features are. In my opinion the only common basis to Transhumanism, coined by Anders Sandberg as the “Central Meme of Transhumanism” (CMT) is as follows: That the human condition can and should be improved by technology.

http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/at20150301b.jpg]]>Security > Rights > Life > Vision > Futurism > Technoprogressivism > Affiliate Scholar > Amon Twyman ]]>Transhumanism is an increasingly popular philosophical movement, and that increasing popularity can sometimes lead to a degree of confusion among newer adherents about what its necessary features are. In my opinion the only common basis to Transhumanism, coined by Anders Sandberg as the “Central Meme of Transhumanism” (CMT) is as follows: That the human condition can and should be improved by technology.]]>2015-03-01T06:23:+00:009 “Facts” You Know For Sure About Jesus That Are Probably Wronghttp://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150301
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tarico20150301#When:06:15:00Z

Jesus has been described as the best known figure in history, and also the least known. If you mentioned the name “Jesus” and someone asked Jesus who?, you might blink. Or laugh. Even people who don’t think Jesus was God, mostly believe they know a fair bit about him. You might be surprised that some of your most basic assumptions about Jesus are probably wrong.

http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/tarico20150301c.jpg]]>Security > Rights > Life > Vision > Contributors > Valerie Tarico]]>Jesus has been described as the best known figure in history, and also the least known. If you mentioned the name “Jesus” and someone asked Jesus who?, you might blink. Or laugh. Even people who don’t think Jesus was God, mostly believe they know a fair bit about him. You might be surprised that some of your most basic assumptions about Jesus are probably wrong.]]>2015-03-01T06:15:+00:00Enhancing Virtues: Fairness (Pt 2)http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20150228
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20150228#When:00:20:00Z

Fairness is a liberal virtue rooted in instinctive aversion to cheating and inequality, but then filtered through prefrontal cognition. Since the spread of Enlightenment values fairness has grown in importance as a virtue, especially for liberals with stronger prefrontal cortices and weaker amygdalas. Fairness finds less support among conservatives for whom respect for authority, ingroup loyalty and disgust/sanctity are more neurologically salient. What impact do social policy and individual practices have on the influence of fairness and cognitive biases?

http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/Weights_of_justicefr.jpg]]>Rights > FreeThought > Economic > Life > Vision > Artificial Intelligence > Psychology > Sociology > Philosophy > CyborgBuddha > Technoprogressivism > Staff > J. Hughes]]>Fairness is a liberal virtue rooted in instinctive aversion to cheating and inequality, but then filtered through prefrontal cognition. Since the spread of Enlightenment values fairness has grown in importance as a virtue, especially for liberals with stronger prefrontal cortices and weaker amygdalas. Fairness finds less support among conservatives for whom respect for authority, ingroup loyalty and disgust/sanctity are more neurologically salient. What impact do social policy and individual practices have on the influence of fairness and cognitive biases?]]>2015-03-01T00:20:+00:00